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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Fixing
Strengths
Weaknesses
Weakness
Never
Maximizing

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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.
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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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